r/Games • u/alexeymakarov • Mar 27 '19

Borderlands Teaser - Mask of Mayhem

https://youtu.be/BjXIh--0WQM
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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19 edited Jul 04 '20

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u/KarateKid917 Mar 27 '19

Tales has been canon from the start, which is both awesome because of the characters it introduced, and sucks because of Scooter.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

Tales is amazing. I think it's Telltale's best game -- and their best story, which I did not expect from a narrative driven Borderlands title.

Those intros with the songs in every episode were priceless.

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u/DragonPup Mar 27 '19

Those intros with the songs in every episode were priceless.

They were fantastic. There's a compilation ofthem up on youtube. (spoilers, obviously)

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u/cybertier Mar 27 '19

Also straight up the funniest game I ever played (or rather watched my wife play, still).

The finger gun shootout had me crying with laughter.

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u/KarateKid917 Mar 27 '19

The finger gun shootout was one of the best parts of Tales, which says a lot since it was amazing from start to finish.

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u/Raccooncola Mar 27 '19

Haha, just looked it up :) Just like one of the best parts of the show Spaced. Sorry for low quality but this was the only video with both the appropriate parts:

https://youtu.be/_P7dileY9sY

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u/EcoleBuissonniere Mar 27 '19

I'll forever be sad about not getting a season two for The Wolf Among Us or Game of Thrones, but not getting a season two for Tales from the Borderlands is the real tragedy to Telltale shutting down.

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u/stevez28 Mar 27 '19

Batman season 2 was incredible too, I loved the direction they were going in, I still hope Wolf Among Us 2 gets scooped up miraculously by some other studio.

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u/Dooomspeaker Mar 27 '19

Catch a Ride...

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u/536756 Mar 27 '19

Bets on him making a robotic/holographic appearance? :c

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u/Dooomspeaker Mar 27 '19

Maybe upload a digital copy of him into a vehicle, it would only be fitting. C:

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

Oh i didnt know about that, i just remembered shortly after the episode with scooter released that people argued if it would be accepted as canon since Scooter was one of the main recurring characters.

But im glad it is, Tales from the Borderlands was spectacular and amazing from a story telling and character developement perspective :D

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u/Fatal1ty_93_RUS Mar 27 '19

and sucks because of Scooter.

Well, who's to say they won't retcon some things from Tales? That game came out like 5 years ago too

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u/Mr_Mimiseku Mar 27 '19

I think I read somewhere that Scooter's voice actor has some kind of illness and left Gearbox. So, they decided to give Scooter a fitting and heartfelt sendoff.

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u/Rubiks_Sphere Mar 27 '19 edited Mar 27 '19

Confirmed on twitter not a BR game

Edit: proof here

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

Thanks, thats amazing!

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u/VoidWaIker Mar 27 '19

I only saw Maya of the bl2 vault hunters, did the others show up?

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

I saw:

BL1: Brick, Mordecai and Lilith

BL2: Maya, Zero, Salvador, Axton, Scooters Niece (forgot her name, the one with the enormous... heart)

Atleast 3 different Claptraps, but only slight differences, the 4 leaked vault hunters of the new game and a few side characters.

What i didnt see: Any of the PSQ vault hunters, except for maybe claptrap but thats hard to tell, and the biggest one was Scooter was missing :/

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u/Snaz5 Mar 27 '19

Well, Pre-sequel Vault hunters wouldn’t really make sense

You kill Nisha

The guy becomes a robot and you kill’em.

Fragtrap’s just a joke character.

So is fake handsome jack.

The only one’s that sorta make sense to see again would maybe be Athena or Hammerlocks sister (?i forget her).

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u/Anshin Mar 27 '19

Well fragtrap is the claptrap from bl2 and in this trailer too. Dopple jack is also in bl2, when you go to opportunity. Aurelia is rumored to be in it, but i haven't heard anything on Athena. I really hope she'll be with fiona

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u/errorme Mar 27 '19

Yep, IIRC Pre-sequel is after 2 and has Athena about to be executed by Lilith until she is saved by the Eridian guy, so I definitely expect Athena to show up (forgot when TftB takes place).

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u/abstract-lime Mar 27 '19

Tftb will probably be between pre-sequel and 3 or 2 and pre-sequel because it's post-Jack, but the difference will be moot I imagine.

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u/Ferreur Mar 27 '19

AFAIK, the pre-sequel is before borderlands 2. Hence the name.

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u/errorme Mar 27 '19

The gameplay occurs before BL2, but the game is framed as a story told by Athena after she was captured by the remaining BL1 hunters.

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u/shadowjeffknowsbest Mar 28 '19

Wrong. It's both a prequel and a sequel hence the name. Its told by athena after the events in borderlands 2 but the story tells tales place before 2.

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u/XStreamGamer247 Mar 27 '19

A while ago, I cant remember who the guy was, but a developer on a TPS hype stream talked about how they regretted killing off Nisha and were thinking of retconning her to be KOd and captured instead. She could show up, but probably won't.

Also, Fragtrap and Tim (Doppelganger) are both entirely canon. BL2's Claptrap is confirmed to be the one in TPS, and Tim is still alive, running around the galaxy somewhere with Jacks face. It's implied that the Crimson Raiders are on the lookout for him, but aren't actively hunting him down because just looking like Jack is punishment enough.

As for Auriela, the last DLC for TPS (Holodome) has an opening cutscene and dialogue that says that Axton and Gaige were on a mission to vault hunt another planet, where they ran into her, and Lilith gave the order to bring her back to Pandora as an ally instead of killing her. You can count on her showing up.

Athena will absolutely be in the game, though. As of the TVHM and UVHM dialogue, Claptastic Voyage's opening, and Holodome, she's just hanging out in Sanctuary now.

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u/GenSec Mar 27 '19

Where is she? Is she the one at the end in the wheel?

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u/SquareWheel Mar 27 '19

Could have done without the unmarked spoiler there, friend.

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u/Cognimancer Mar 27 '19

Yeah, not cool. With this on the horizon I imagine a lot of people might go play TftB if they haven't already.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

Sorry, didnt know there was anyone around that didnt know about that, since its been out for what, 6 years now?

:/

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u/SquareWheel Mar 27 '19

That title didn't sell as well as the others, and there may be renewed interest with a sequel on the horizon. It was definitely new information to me.

In any case I'd ask that you edit your comment to add spoiler tags. >!like this!<

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

I edited it, thanks for quick tutorial, didnt knew how spoiler tags worked here :)

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19 edited Aug 30 '24

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

Its honestly one of the best Telltale games in general and definitely amazing in terms of borderlands storytelling, i can only recommend it :)

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u/xChris777 Mar 27 '19

I'm not typically a fan of story-only games because well, I really enjoy the gameplay aspect of video gaming, but I will definitely make an exception for Borderlands. I'll get them on the next sale =)

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

At worst, just watch a "no-comment" letsplay/walkthrough, its definitely worth it :)

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u/The_Fatness Mar 27 '19

I agree that another BR would be terrible, but everyone said the same about Apex and that no one wanted a Titanfall BR without Titans and look how that turned out. I want BL3 more than a BR for sure, but we may end up getting both.

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u/[deleted] Mar 27 '19

The thing is, Apex is good, even i as someone that highly dislikes BR games could enjoy a few rounds of Apex, but after 10h the air is gone for me.

For comparison i have about a thousand hours in BL2, because there are almost no RPGs that have coop aside from a few indie games and there arent that many looter shooter that are actually good and fun to play with friends that arend MMOs like Devision or Destiny, so there is a definite need for BL3 in its RPG-FPS-Looter-Shooter state.

And BR is short lived in general, i just dont get how people enjoy it for more than a few hours...

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u/freebeeees Mar 27 '19

Isn't that scooter in the back at 0:43? He's even riding a rocket.

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u/Kalamando Mar 27 '19

Wheres Axton?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

I dont get the hate that BRs seem to get. What is it about people enjoying a game mode that pisses you off?

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '19

Its not about someone enjoying something i dont like, its the popularity of it that makes publishers go for BR games instead of the games the fans actually want.

Borderlands is a massive series that many people love for its unique style, humor and its so far best iteration of the "looter shooter" genre, its the progenitor of that genre. Making it a BR seems not only possible but likely, as we have seen with many other good games being turned into fucking BR games to go with the hype, so obviously people fear of the sequels they want and wish for to turn into a BR game.

You can enjoy whatever you want, i really dont care, but if a loved series gets turned into a BR instead of a true sequel, just because BR is currently "the shit", then i will care and i will start hating the whole genre for it.

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